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    The above is a paid political announcement sponsored by the DNC and Debby Wasserman Schultz...
    No way. You couldn't pay me to be a member of that party. I'm just anti-stupid.
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    Good for you, and I mean that sincerely. My issue is not with you, but with people who sit at home on their arses and say "What a wanker that Bono is."
    That way madness lies. It means I can't call ELP's *shudder* In The Hot Seat *shudder* one of the worst albums ever made by a major label band because I'm only a guy who plays his guitar and bass for fun while I'm watching a baseball or hockey game, not in a band on a major label.

    Bono, Geldof and the like are fair game, full stop. In Bono's case, he's so entangled with some really nasty people and corporate interests that to NOT give him a bit of a kicking would be an abdication of critical thinking. For just one example of those not on the Bono train, follow this link, the comment section is especially nice:

    http://tinyurl.com/qem2lmd

    He famously sucked up to the American politician Jesse Helms, an unrepentant racist and general scumbag, just so that Helms would help out the problem-ridden African debt relief project. To say that Helms didn't give a damn about people with darker skin tone than himself is a vast understatement:

    http://tinyurl.com/pfmc2b3

    From the link: Senator Jesse Helms is 80 years old. He walks with a four-pronged cane. A fearsomely rightwing evangelical Christian, he has repeatedly exploited racial prejudice in his election campaigns. He believes that homosexuals are "weak, morally sick wretches", and a couple of years ago, he endorsed a report entitled "There Is A Virus Loose Within Our Culture", which blamed violence in America on Satan's involvement in the music industry

    *That's* the kind of people Paul Hewson kisses the asses of.

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    ^^ Agreed. The ends don't always justify the means. Especially, if you're helping to solve one problem by helping to perpetuate another.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    ...helping to solve one problem by helping to perpetuate another.
    Unfortunately, that's politics in a nutshell.
    Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

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    for me personally, having lived and experienced the era of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war, I was completely enveloped in the early Prog music era of taking Rock musical elements and combining them progressively with other styles in solidarity with all that was racial equality and anti-war. Hence, artists from Crimso (Epitaph) to Tony Williams Lifetime (English Guitarist with African American Drummer) to Mandrill (African American brothers with Latin and Jewish musicians) who pushed the boundaries of what Rock music used to be into the "enlightened"/"progressive" age were all exciting and new in 1971 and I embraced them wholeheartedly.

    It is sad that our world culture seems to have regressed from that wonderful few years (1969-1972... R.I.P.)
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cavgator View Post
    survival of the fittest.
    that's the way of *this* world... sadly, Darwin's theory only served to make it more glamorous and "normal"

    "the fittest should kill the less fit"
    Last edited by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER; 10-16-2014 at 05:19 AM.
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    No way. You couldn't pay me to be a member of that party. I'm just anti-stupid.
    Then you'd love some of FDR's quote...

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    Then you'd love some of FDR's quote...
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    Quote Originally Posted by cavgator View Post
    ... you'd love some of FDR's quote[s]...
    "I welcome their hatred." Indeed.....
    Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes

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    Quote Originally Posted by cavgator View Post
    Then you'd love some of FDR's quote...
    I do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cavgator View Post
    Then you'd love some of FDR's quote...
    I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were Joe Bussard.

    http://www.dustandgrooves.com/joe-bussard-frederick-ma/
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